Teodoro 'Ted' DiMarzio

Wednesday

Sep 30, 2009 at 12:01 AMSep 30, 2009 at 3:06 AM

AMBRIDGE

Teodoro "Ted" DiMarzio, 83, of Ambridge, lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, in UPMC Shadyside.

Born July 26, 1926, in Pacentro, Italy, a son of the late Pasquale and Cecelia Cercone DeMarzio, he was a retired steelworker in the welded tube department of LTV Steel Corporation. He was a member of the Good Samaritan Catholic Church, Ambridge, and was an active member of the Holy Name Society. He was voted as Beaver County Deanery Man of the Year in 2003.

Surviving are his beloved wife of 48 years, Jean Genovese DiMarzio; a devoted father to his two daughters, Rosana DiMarzio, Edgewater, NJ and Diana DiMarzio, New York City, NY, whom he loved dearly; two sisters, Mary Pelino and her husband, Tony, Monaca and Anna DiGiovanni, in Italy; two brothers, Guido DiMarzio and his wife, Mary Agnes, Robinson Township and Gino DiMarzio and his wife, Marisa, Cheyenne, Wyoming; two close sisters-in-law, Josephine Scundi, Ambridge and Mary Maretti and her husband, Donnie, Seabrook, TX and numerous nieces and nephews. He was loved and cherished by his family and friends.

Friends will be received today from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. in the JOHN SYKA FUNERAL HOME INC., 833 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge, where prayers will be offered Thursday at 10:30 a.m. followed by a Mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. in the Good Samaritan Catholic Church.

Entombment will follow in Sylvania Hills Mausoleum.

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